# Designer, Research and Experiments

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: Remote, US
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $176K - $195K
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We're looking for a Designer to lead hands-on design for research and experimental creative work. You'll help define a project's visual direction, build prototypes, and carry promising ideas through to finished work across research communications, demos, and experiences.

In this role, you will:

- Partner with researchers and creative leads to define the design problem, identify the essential story, and establish a clear visual direction.

- Translate research concepts, methods, and findings into accurate visual narratives, checking interpretations and limitations with subject-matter experts.

- Develop concepts and prototypes for experiments, demos, and experiences, using iterative making to test and refine creative possibilities.

- Design across web, editorial, social, film, and experiential formats, maintaining a coherent visual idea as work moves between media.

- Build reusable graphic systems, templates, and design patterns that support research communications and make future work easier to develop.

- Guide design contributions from collaborators, give specific feedback, and maintain a high standard of typography, composition, and information design.

- Own design delivery for complex workstreams, align priorities with partners, and adapt scope as research findings and production requirements evolve.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

- 8+ years of relevant experience

- A portfolio demonstrating senior-level design judgment, strong conceptual thinking, and polished work that makes complex ideas understandable.

- Experience shaping visual direction and delivering projects from early exploration through final production, with substantial hands-on contribution.

- Strong graphic design fundamentals and experience creating flexible visual systems across digital or physical applications.

- An experimental practice that includes prototyping, testing approaches, and learning new tools or formats as the idea requires.

- The curiosity to understand unfamiliar research, ask precise questions, and preserve technical meaning rather than simplify it inaccurately.

- The ability to guide collaborators, explain design decisions, synthesize feedback, and maintain momentum when a brief is still developing.

- Experience with research storytelling, creative technology, interactive or experiential work, motion systems, or AI-assisted making is especially relevant.

## Skills

### Required
- graphic design
- prototyping
- visual direction
- design systems
- typography
- composition
- information design

### Nice to have
- research storytelling
- creative technology
- interactive or experiential work
- motion systems
- AI-assisted making

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